Questão 50126

(UNICAMP - 2002 - 2 fase - Questão 20)

O poema abaixo expressa algumas sensações ou sentimentos negativos. Explicite três, usando passagens do texto para justificar sua resposta.

Commuter

He lives in a house in the suburbs
He rises each morning at six.
He runs for the bus to the station,
Buys his paper and looks at the pics.

He always gets in the same carriage,
Puts his briefcase up on the rack.
Thinks miserably of his office,
And knows he can never turn back.

He gets to his desk by nine thirty,
Wondering what he should do.
When the coffee break comes at eleven,
He knows he still hasn’t a clue.

His lunch break is quite uninspiring,
He sits it out in the canteen.
It’s fish and chips, mince and potatoes,
A choice that’s quite literally obscene.

At five he runs back to the station,
Gets in the same carriage again,
Unfolds his evening paper,
Pulls a veil down over his brain.

Poema de Alan Maley publicado em Maley e Duff, The Inward Ear, Cambridge University Press, 1989.